Red Bear & Zoo

1988
at a "Winter in Summer" check-out party

Zoo on the left, Red Bear on the right

2018
in the craft room

Red Bear on the left, Zoo on the right

Then This Happened

 Red Bear and I have been doing annual Mixed Media projects since 2017.

I don't know where the phrase "Then This Happened" came from, I only know that I came up with it.

Common elements we had to use were:

• wooden letters
• chunk of burlap
• tissue paper with a stamp [it's the butterfly/pocket watch/text stamp that I have] 
• one half of a styrofoam ping pong ball that was bouncing around my craft room
• a tea-dyed tag
• bits of an old calendar page by Marjolein Bastin

Possibly some other things.

Zoo

Red Bear

Make-up Organizers in the Craft Room

 

Acrylic Lipstick Holder
Stacked on top of a 3-drawer unit

Magicals, Tim Holtz Blenders, Adhesives, Water Droplet Thingys, Perfect Pens, Needless Syringes for squirting colour, and bandaids just 'cause I can be careless!

Note: The Magicals jars are ever-so-slightly too tall to fit in the drawers.

18 Mini Distress Inks
keeps my most used colours close at hand

Pens & Scrapers

Perfect Pearls, Memento Ink

Note: Perfect Pearls jars fit into the drawers, Magicals DO NOT, they are ever-so-slightly too tall.

File Folder Holder
small watercolour set, WIP [work in progress] items

File Folder Holder

Glitter Balls

 Super Simple

1. Use empty glass or plastic ornament balls, we used plastic.
2. Pour a liquid adhesive that dries clear into the ball.
3. Swirl it around until the entire inner surface is coated.
4. Pour out excess.
5. Using a paper funnel, drop in some glitter.
6. Cover the opening and give it a good shake until the entire inner surface is coated.
7. Dump out excess glitter.
8. Set aside to dry.